Description Gropius House

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set amid fields, forests, , farmhouses, gropius house mixes traditional materials of new england architecture (wood, brick, , fieldstone) industrial materials such glass block, acoustic plaster, welded steel, , chrome banisters. house structure consists of traditional new england post , beam wooden frame, sheathed white painted tongue , grove vertical siding. traditional clapboards used in interior foyer, applied vertically, create illusion of height. clapboards performed practical function gallery. because works displayed in gropius house ever-changing, wood served easy surface nail into, patch, repaint, , start on again. home contains living room shares open floor plan dining room, kitchen, office, sewing room, 3 bedrooms, , 4 bathrooms. bathrooms positioned in less-prominent northwest corner of house, , used same plumbing stack maximum efficiency. 1 of notable differences between gropius house , adjacent homes flat roof. while in of europe , in parts of united states flat roofs becoming quite common, in lincoln , surrounding areas high pointed roofs gables norm. gropius fashioned flat roof slight tilt center water drain off dry on property.


in 1931, walter gropius asked write article describing ideal livable small home architectural forum. gropius outlined important aspects of home s design, sounding true description of lincoln dwelling: swelling house should no longer resemble fortress, monument of walls medieval thickness , expensive front intended showy representation. instead of light construction, full of bright daylight , sunshine, alterable, time-saving, economical , useful in last degree occupants life functions intended serve.


gropius went on describe ideal layout of such house, literally outlining gropius house composition: ground plan... geometrical projection of spacial idea – organizing plan moving within house. elevation, facade, result of plan , not starting point... hence, no artificial symmetry, free functional arrangement of succession of rooms, short, time-saving passages of communication, moving space children, clear separation between living, sleeping, , housekeeping parts of house, , finally, proper utilization of ground , sunny aspect. bedrooms need morning sun (facing east) living rooms should have southern western light, , northside left storerooms, kitchens, staircases , bathrooms.








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